The discovery of a newborn magnetar inside a distant supernova helps explain why some stellar explosions shine far brighter ...

Researchers report superluminous supernova SN 2024afav whose erratic behavior supports a long-standing theory of stellar ...

Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest ...

A UC Santa Barbara graduate student alongside a local nonprofit research group have advanced the frontiers of physics while ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar to the signals seen when black holes collide. The unusual pattern appeared ...

The light did not fade the way it was supposed to. After blazing into view about a billion light-years from Earth, the ...

Researchers say the "powerful engine" behind superluminous exploding stars had been hidden for years — until a "chirp" from the cosmos helped confirm their link.

Magnetars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe. A special class of neutron stars, they are celestial bodies that pack the mass of the Sun in a sphere the size of a city. On top of that ...

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Cambridge, MA – Since Galileo first pointed a telescope at the sky 400 years ago, a myriad of technological advances have allowed astronomers to look at very faint objects, very distant objects, and ...

The bizarre, grinch-like wisp of green light dubbed the Green Monster, first seen last year snaking through the glowing remnants of an exploded star, belongs to a blast wave bordering the debris field ...